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Facebook Ads Bid Strategies: Lowest Cost, Cost Cap, Bid Cap

Jon Loomer

Facebook advertisers can use bid strategies to help control how Facebook spends your budget in the ad auction. When used properly, this can lead to more profitable ads. The primary bid strategies are as follows: Lowest Cost. Cost Cap. Bid Cap. Minimum ROAS. The problem, of course, is that most advertisers don’t understand when and how to use these bid strategies.

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Marketing Lessons Learned From the 2021 Facebook Outage

Ignite Social Media

The week of October 4, 2021, Facebook’s week went from bad to worse when the company’s entire family of apps were inaccessible to users with no warning. The massive outage, which impacted Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus, lasted over 5 hours. Both platform users and marketers were frustrated during the outage, especially with very little information being released to the public in real-time.

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Twitter Launches Twitter Spaces 'Spark' Program to Fund and Support Audio Creators

Social Media Today

The program will provide direct funding and support for emerging audio social creators.

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Jacksepticeye’s 2021 Thankmas Charity Push Launches, Raising Money For Homeless Programs

Forbes Social Media

Sean “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin's annual Thankmas holiday fundraiser will launch in early December, taking on homelessness and supporting innovative charity New Story. The campaign, backed by Tiltify and Real Good Touring, hopes to double the nearly $5 million Thankmas raised in 2020.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Twitter Adds Custom Headline and Landing Page Options for Carousel Ads, Previews Coming Ad Updates

Social Media Today

Twitter's new Carousel Ad format provides more capacity to showcase specific elements, and segment responses.

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How to Get on the TikTok For You Page: 7 Simple Tips

Hootsuite

TikTok recently hit 1 billion global monthly active users. And even though it’s not quite as big as Facebook or Instagram (yet), some demographics already choose it over most social networks out there. It’s no wonder that so many brands are trying to establish a presence on the platform — but not all of them are getting it right. So, before you set up an account and try to make sense of the platform’s many niche trends , read this guide to find out how to get on TikTok’s For You page.

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How Vistaprint Found Its Voice on Clubhouse

Likeable

Vistaprint was looking to promote their recent acquisition of global creative platform 99designs. To help drive new users to the 99designs website, they wanted to connect with small business owners and entrepreneurs with influence. We knew that users on the social audio platform Clubhouse ( here’s an explainer if you don’t know what Clubhouse is) were incredibly engaged and loyal, some even spending as many as 8 hours at a time on the app. .

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Instagram Adds Reels Ads into its Marketing API

Social Media Today

The update will make it easier for more businesses to utilize Instagram Reels ads.

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Twitter Reacts To Claims That VP Harris Appeared With Child Actors In NASA Space Video

Forbes Social Media

Harris, who also chairs the National Space Council, was further criticized for appearing to lack in-depth knowledge on the subject of space exploration.

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TikTok Publishes New Playbook for Auto Marketers in the App, Including a Range of General Ad Tips

Social Media Today

TikTok's latest guide looks at how auto marketers can make best use of the app for their promotions.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Apple Does Customer Surveys Right

WebInKnow

I’ve been super critical of annoying customer surveys; you know the type – when a company wants you to fill out a ten-minute survey about a five-minute call with somebody in customer support. I recently had an excellent experience with Apple, and the survey they sent me after was well organized because I could control how much time I spent with it.

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Twitter Looks to Make it Easier to Access a Chronological Feed of the Latest Tweets

Social Media Today

The option will make it easier to essentially switch off Twitter's feed algorithm.

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What Is Trickbot Malware & How To Get Rid of It On Mac?

Tweaklibrary

Up until sometime back, users had a notion that malware could not infect Mac and it was confined to Windows computers only. But, let us tell you that various kinds of malware are targeting Mac as well. So much so that some are even able to invade Mac’s defenses and others are constantly banging the new Mac developments such as Apple’s M1 processor.

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How We Reimagined the Hootsuite Office for the Future of Work [Photos]

Hootsuite

The pandemic brought remote work to life to a scale never seen before. As it continues, organizations are increasingly asking: What should a return to the office actually look like? Some have gone fully remote. For others, working from home was only temporary. But workers are increasingly making their wishes known; Many want to stay remote—at least some of the time—and companies have to figure out how to adapt.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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Contents may be hot: Behind the handle with Social Media Tea

Sprout Social

If you work in social media, you already know that your role is often misunderstood. Those on the outside looking in may assume social marketers have a fun, stress-free, entry-level role. But that’s simply not true. With the goal of highlighting the realities of working in marketing, Social Media Tea provides an outlet where social media and digital marketing professionals anonymously spill their secrets, their frustrations, and their experiences.

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Factors to Consider When You’re Buying a Condo

The Realtime Report

Factors to Consider When. You’re Buying a Condo. Purchasing a home in a condo building involves some extra considerations that typically don’t factor into buying a single-family home. Rather than reviewing only the physical condition of a home, purchasers need to get a sense of the physical condition and upkeep of an entire building. Also, they have to do some due diligence about a building’s management and financial status.

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Snapchat Shares New Insights into NBA Fan Engagement in the App [Infographic]

Social Media Today

With over half of all basketball fans in the US active on Snapchat, the app presents significant opportunity for tie-in campaigns and promotions.

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TikTok Shares New Insights into Halloween Engagement Trends [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Halloween hype is rising on TikTok, which could present new opportunity for your promotions.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.